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Story: Cryptocurrency Ill-Suited to Small Investors

By Steven Anderson

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Consumers who do not likely understand the risk or value-related to Bitcoin can suffer huge losses.  Cryptocurrency is ill-suited to small investors.

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) stated that derivatives and exchange-traded notes (ETNs), “suffer harm from sudden and unexpected losses if they invest in these products.”

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There is a lot of difficulty in evaluating them due to their extreme volatility, and consumers do not have a clear understanding of what they are buying in to.

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Christopher Woolard stated, “As with our work on the wider CFD and binary options markets, we will act when we see poor products being sold to retail consumers.

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A group of Democrats in their letter to Facebook Inc. stated: "If products and services like these are left improperly regulated and without sufficient oversight, they could pose…

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The letter further stated that the scant information concerning the potential use of Libra and Calibra and the lack of regulatory protections for the currency, to have eventually…

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The letter elaborated on how the vulnerabilities can probably be exploited by bad actors concerning cryptocurrencies, wallets, and exchanges.

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The government is yet to identify legislative solutions, and therefore they have requested Facebook to hold off on implementing their Libra plans until the Congress, and the…

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They stated thus:  “Failure to cease implementation before we can do so, risks a new Swiss-based financial system that is too big to fail.”

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Cuba has recently announced its intention to consider using cryptocurrency to bolster on their finances. Just like Venezuela, Cuba is suffering from more robust forms of U.S.

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Miguel Diaz-Canel, the president of Cuba, stated that the cryptocurrency plan is focused on improving national production and demand in a way to improve on the growth of the…

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Of note, Donald Trump, the U.S. president, included the Venezuelan cryptocurrency to the list of their assets.

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